El FIPADOC calienta motores
por Fabien Lemercier
- El primer gran certamen internacional de documentales del año proyectará 180 obras en Biarritz del 24 de enero al 1 de febrero

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"Knowing how to look carefully at others, knowing how to look inside of yourself to imagine a better world, but also knowing how to look at the world for what it is, without lowering your gaze or your camera." These are the virtues of documentary film, according to Anne Georget and Christine Camdessus, who are respectively the president and general delegate of FIPADOC which has unveiled the wonderfully rich programme (180 works) of its 7th edition, unspooling in Biarritz between 24 January and 1 February.
12 films will battle it out for the Grand Documentary Prize, set to be awarded by a jury comprising French director Nicolas Philibert, South Africa’s Mandisa Zitha (director of the Encounters Festival) and Serbian director Mila Turajlić. Standing tall among them are Afternoons of Solitude [+lee también:
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entrevista: Albert Serra
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entrevista: Maja Novaković
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entrevista: Filip Remunda
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Sharing the showcase are Balomania [+lee también:
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entrevista: Thomas Riedelsheimer
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ficha de la película] by Ukraine’s Lesia Diak (discovered in competition in Sarajevo), Cleaning & Cleansing [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Japan’s Shiori Itō, Homegrown by American filmmaker Michael Premo and The Bibi Files by South Africa’s Alexis Bloom.
The French Documentaries Competition (due to be assessed by a jury including Claus Drexel, Lofti Achour and Lucile Commeaux) will consist of 12 contenders, 10 of which are feature films: Sudan, Remember Us [+lee también:
entrevista: Hind Meddeb
ficha de la película] by Hind Meddeb, Stups by Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet, Act Up Against AIDS, A Story of Love and Death by Pierre Chassagnieux and Matthieu Lère, The Watchman by Lou du Pontavice and Victoire Bonin Grais, Writing Hawa [+lee también:
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entrevista: Najiba Noori y Rasul Noori
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entrevista: Giuseppe Schillaci
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The Musical Documentary Competition notably consists of Joana Mallwitz – Momentum by Germany’s Günter Atteln (scheduled to open the festival), Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat [+lee también:
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entrevista: Johan Grimonprez
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ficha de la película] by the Netherlands’ Rogier Kappers.
Six further sections are set to round off this tantalisingly rich line-up, namely the Impact Documentary line-up, the French-Speaking Documentaries Panorama, the European Stories offering, the Smart - Biarritz Immersive selection, New Talent from film schools and a short films selection.
Other events worthy of mention are the Focus on the Balkans, comprising 24 titles, a selection of three documentary series, and a variety of thematic sections (family titles, culinary and gastronomic documentaries, and works about the sea and the ocean), a Docs4Teens section and, on the “major premieres” agenda, Ravel in a Thousand Sparkles by Gordon and François-René Martin, the French-Spanish production Sorcières : chroniques d’un massacre by Marie Thiry and the Hungarian film Agent of Happiness by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbo.
Last but not least, FIPADOC PRO is due to unspool between 27 and 30 January, hosting conferences and pitches of 24 projects taking place within the Co-Production Forum as well as others dedicated to First European Films, not to mention workshops and presentations of French broadcasters’ line-ups.
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